Johannes Hoornbeek
Johannes HoornbeekDutch second Reformation.
Works
Hoornbeck was a writer of polemical works.[3] His many works include:
- De Conversione Indorum et Gentilum, libri duo (on the conversion of native populations of Asia and America)
- Pro Convincendis, et Convertendis Judaeis, libri octo (on the conversion of the Jews)
He attacked the
Cartesians. A collection of his polemical writing was the Summa Controversiarum Religionis; Cum Infidelibus, Hæreticis, Schismaticis: Id Est, Gentilibus, Judæis, Muhammedanis; Papistis, Anabaptistis, Enthusiastis et Libertinis, Socinianis; Remonstrantibus, Lutheranis, Brouvnistis, Græcis of 1653 (second edition, 1658). He also wrote "a fierce critique of Judaism in general and of the Kabbalah in particular," advocating the conversion of the Jews to the Dutch Calvinist/Reformed Church. The book Tesjubat Jehuda sive pro convicendis et convertendis Judaeis Libri Octo was published in Leiden in 1655.[4]
He was painted by Frans Hals.[5]
Notes
- ^ Hoornbeck, Hoornbeeck, Hornbeek
- ^ Carl J. Schroeder, In Quest of Pentecost: Jodocus van Lodenstein and the Dutch second Reformation (2001), pp. 54–5; Google Books
- ^ J. W. Hofmeyr, Johannes Hornbeek as Polemikus (in Dutch, with English and German short summaries), Kampen, Koch, 1975
- ^ Michael Heyd, “The ‘Jewish Quaker’: Christian Perceptions of Shabbatai Zevi as an Enthusiast,” in Allison Coudert and Jeffrey Shoulson, eds., Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p. 241 and p. 259, n.36.
- ^ "Johannes Hoornbeek" by Frans Hals [Selected Works]
External links
- Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia page
- Hoornbeek/Hornbeck genealogy site
- Works by Johannes Hoornbeek at Post-Reformation Digital Library
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